"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."